The US Supreme Court last month allowed the Trump administration to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) — a legal shield against deportation — for Haitian and Syrian migrants, leaving hundreds of thousands of people across the country facing removal. The ruling has stirred particular anxiety in New Orleans, a city whose culture, architecture, and cuisine have been shaped by Haitian immigration stretching back more than two centuries, when refugees from the Haitian Revolution first settled in the city's Tremé neighbourhood in the early 1800s. With Haiti still gripped by violence and humanitarian crisis, residents and community figures in New Orleans warn that enforcing deportations would sever deep historical ties and uproot people who, as local chef Charly Pierre put it, are "just trying to live and make an earning to support their whole family, just like everybody else."